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From the vault This day in tech history, October 29

  1. 1878

    Willgodt Odhner patents his pinwheel calculator

    Machines built on his design were sold as Brunsviga calculators into the 1950s.

  2. 1969

    The first message on the ARPANET: "lo"

    At 10:30 p.m. Charley Kline at UCLA tried to log in to a computer at SRI. It crashed after "lo". The full login worked about an hour later.

  3. 1988

    Video Game History: Sega's Mega Drive comes out in Japan

    Sega's 16-bit console ran a Motorola 68000 at 7.67 MHz and gave a Z80 the job of handling sound.

  4. 1998

    John Glenn returns to space at 77

    Glenn launched on Discovery as the oldest person to fly in space, 36 years after his Mercury orbit, on a nine-day mission that included experiments comparing aging with the effects of spaceflight.

Then and now

1971: Transistors on a chip: 2,300. Today: 336 billion. Intel's 4004 squeezed 2,300 transistors into a 16-pin package; NVIDIA's Rubin GPU is a 336-billion-transistor design, and 336,000,000,000 divided by 2,300 is about 146 million times as many.

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